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CO-OPERATIVE DEPARTMENT.
CO-OPERATION.
Organisation.
THE CO-OPERATIVE DEPARTMENT AT THE DISTRICT LEVEL is
headed by the Assistant Registrar, Co-operative Societies, Kolhapur.
Many of the powers of the Registrar of Co-operative Societies under
the Bombay Co-operative Societies Act (VII of 1925) and the rules
under it have been delegated to him. There are two District
Co-operative Officers, one is for the general organisation work and
the other is for the development schemes under the Second Five-Year
Plan. The District Co-operative Officer who is appointed for the
development work under the Second Five-Year Plan is designated as
Additional District Co-operative Officer.
The Co-operative Officer has to attend to
organisation work of all types of societies, inspections of the
supervising unions and federal societies, urban banks, and salary
earners' societies, control over supervisors, etc. The Additional
District Cooperative Officer has to attend to the preparation of
plans and budgets under the Second Five-Year Plan, and see that the
work is executed according to the plans prepared. He has to attend
to the development work of housing societies and other development
works such as formation of large size multipurpose societies,
submission of proposals for construction of godowns of multi-purpose
societies and purchase and sale societies, i.e., all work relating
to development and schemes under the Second Five-Year Plan.
The Assistant District Co-operative Officer has to
look after the work relating to the registration of the credit and
multipurpose societies, inspection of the same, scrutiny of the
diaries and inspection memoes of the Supervisors' work relating to
the enquiries into the complaints of members.
There is an Assistant District Co-operative Officer
to look after incomplete co-operative lift irrigation. Originally
there was only one post for this work but recently one more post of
Assistant District Co-operative Officer for incomplete schemes and
one post of mechanical supervisor have been created. The Assistant
District Co-operative Officer for Lift Irrigation schemes attends to
the work of co-operative lift irrigation societies, co-operative dam
construction societies, co-operative farming societies, and the work
of the four National Extensive Service Blocks. He attends to
inspection, organisation and other work in relation to these
societies, and National Extension Service Blocks. Since the
appointment of the Assistant District Co-operative Officer for
incomplete works the work relating to the co-operative lift
irrigation and dam construction societies has been transferred to
him and he looks to the work of these societies. The Mechanical
Supervisor is expected to give technical guidance to the societies
and issue progress certificates of the work done by the co-operative
lift irrigation societies.
Audit.
There is a Special Auditor attached to Assistant
Registrar's Office who exercise control over the audit staff. He has
to see that the work done by the auditor and sub-auditors is done
according to the programmes chalked out and approved by the
department. He has to scrutinise the diaries and audit memoes
submitted by the auditors and sub-auditors, attend to the work
relating to misappropriation and enquiry cases. He is also required
to submit audit progress reports, audit fee recovery and supervision
fee recovery statements.
There are five auditors and eleven sub-auditors. Of
the five auditors, one is meant for the audits of forest labourers'
societies. One is meant for the audit of weavers' societies and the
remaining three are meant for the audit of the co-operative
societies other than agricultural credit and multi-purpose
societies. The sub-auditors are expected to take up the audits of
agricultural credit and multi-purpose societies.
Other staff.
Other staff.-There is a Statistical
Assistant and also an Accountant. The Statistical Assistant is
expected to collect statistical data and submit reports required by
the Registrar. He looks after submission of statistical reports
under the Second Five-Year Plan. He is also expected to make surveys
and collect statistical data as directed by the Statistician. The
Accountant does the work relating to the loan accounts and recovery
of the loan instalments in time. He has also to attend to the
preparation of budgets and send expenditure statements.
There are more officers who look to the respective
section of the co-operative movement in this district as indicated
below:-
(1) Special Auditor, Co-operative Societies, (2)
Deputy Registrar, Co-operative Sugar Factories, (3) Assistant
Director of Small Scale Industries and Assistant Registrar for
Industrial Co-operatives and Village Industries, (4) Special Auditor
for Co-operative Sugar Factories, (5) Assistant Registrar,
Co-operative Societies for Paddy Pilot Schemes, (6) Marketing
Inspector.
Paddy Cultivation.
Recently the district has been brought under the
Paddy Cultivation Scheme sponsored by Government through
Agricultural and Forest department. The work is carried out by the
Assistant Registrar, Paddy Cultivation Scheme, who is stationed at
Kolhapur. The duties of the Assistant Registrar for Paddy
Cultivation Scheme consists of organisation and establishment of
societies undertaking paddy cultivation on the Japanese method and
making available loans to them for the purpose.
Regulated Markets.
The Kolhapur Market which was regulated under the
provisions of the Kolhapur Agricultural Produce Markets Act, 1945,
for the purchase and sale of gul and groundnut was allowed to
continue as a Regulated market under the Bombay Agricultural Produce
Markets Act, 1939 on the merger of the Kolhapur State in Bombay. In
addition, there is a regulated market at Gadhingalaj which is
regulated under the Bombay Agricultural Produce Markets Act for the
purchase and sale of gul, groundnut, chillies, jowar and
bajri.
Sarvodaya Centre.
The State Government have adopted a scheme known as
the ''Sarvodaya" scheme, the aim of which is to bring about
all-round intensive development, social, educational and economical,
of selected compact blocks of backward villages (from 30 to 45) in
each district, through a constructive programme which was foremost
in the objectives of Mahatma Gandhi. This scheme aims at development
of backward areas by means of measures relating to (1) education,
(2) agricultural development, (3) cottage industries and industries
subsidiary to agriculture, (4) health, water supply and conservancy,
and (5) social and cultural development including prohibition.
One such Sarvodaya centre has been opened at Ajra
mahal covering over 49 villages. The chief executive authority in
the formulation and implementation of the scheme is a Sanchalak. He
is assisted by a committee of non-officials known as the Sarvodaya
Area Committee. Such a committee has been established for the Ajra
Mahal Centre. Every year, a programme for the development of the
area is formulated by the Sanchalak which is considered by the State
Sarvodaya Committee before it is finally sanctioned by Government.
During the financial year 1956-57, grants totalling Rs. 69,420 have
been sanctioned for the Ajra Mahal Centre.
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